Components: Theory
Credit Hours: 2
Course Schedule: Block System
This course provides a full description of the coronary arteries. Course will start with the description of the introduction of the coronary anatomy, with special emphasis on the surface anatomical landmarks of coronary arteries and its branches, then the heart segment supplied by each branch. The assessment of the coronary arteries by different modalities like echocardiography, cardiac catheterization, and CT are going to be discussed in details. Other diseases affecting coronary arteries are going to be covered include congenital and ischemic heart disease, inflammation of the coronary arteries, then finally the intervention related to the coronary arteries in the cath lab